Black Hole Practicals

[Thiosk (OP)]

Sol is adjacent to a Class 2- but right next door to that is a reasonable system for establishing colonies.  However: will my idiot class 1 civilian ships go roaring into the wild blue yonder when I establish that colony, only to be sucked inexorably to their doom?  And then continue getting sucked to their doom until they are all replaced by their faster descendants?

[Thibaut]

"only effect" of black holes is to decrease the speed of the ships going by by their class *1000K/s.

So, if your ships have a speed > 2000 Km/s (3 or 4KK would be better unless you're ready to have it being very sluggish) it should be ok

[Mel Vixen]

Iirc in the mechanics-thread to blackholes Steve says Civis ignore these places. I am to lazy to search the quote now.

[Thiosk (OP)]

Ah, so they'll ignore it.  Thats good and bad, to be honest.  They go too slow to handle it, but the next gen goes 3k and the later gens go even faster.  Cuts out a whole warp chain to populate.

[voknaar]

You will just have to hope that if you build up the colony's enough that a few civilian ships will spawn there. I have no idea if they only spawn at the capital or if its at 25m+ colonys.

[Thiosk (OP)]

only at capital, methinks

[Caesar]

You could always generate a route to the colony by linking an unexplored jump point in another system to this new colonizable system.

[deoved]

You could always generated a route to the colony by linking an unexplored jump point in another system to this new colonizable system.

You mean using SM mode or?

[Caesar]

You mean using SM mode or?

I mean using SM mode.

[Steve Walmsley]

Sol is adjacent to a Class 2- but right next door to that is a reasonable system for establishing colonies.  However: will my idiot class 1 civilian ships go roaring into the wild blue yonder when I establish that colony, only to be sucked inexorably to their doom?  And then continue getting sucked to their doom until they are all replaced by their faster descendants?

Civs will only use black holes if they have at least a 1000 km/s greater speed than the effect of the black hole.

Steve